SHE NEVER ASKED FOR A TRIBUTE — YET I SANG ONE IN SILENCE. voice and a memory that wouldn’t let go. Neil Diamond stood there, holding the same guitar he once played for Diane Keaton on a rainy afternoon in Malibu. He didn’t mention her name, didn’t need to. The song did it for him. The lyrics spoke of “empty chairs and borrowed mornings,” lines he’d written years ago but never dared to finish — until now. Some say he sang it only once, at a private gala, eyes closed the whole time. “It wasn’t a performance,” one guest whispered. “It was a goodbye only he could hear.”
Neil Diamond’s Quiet Farewell to Diane Keaton She never asked for a tribute — and he never planned to write…